My First Post

I started this blog because I’m very passionate about my lifestyle changes. I started this journey in November 2016. Let me start off  by saying I was newly married and had gained a few pounds. I had been over weight most of my life. I never really started dieting long periods of time because I would never see results and it was just hard.  I had no self control and no drive. I had just started working at a new store I just transferred to and it was hectic. I was working at McDonald’s as a department manager and I wasn’t prepared for the amount of stress I was under at this particular store. I started to notice my mid section getting bigger and my period was late so I figured I must be pregnant but tragically that never lasted long for me. I miscarried 3 different children that year. I was depressed and my hormones were all out of whack, I knew something was wrong. So I went to get my blood work done and I had an elevated TSH which if you know about thyroid dysfunction most doctors won’t do anything until your above a 3 and mine just happened to be 2.8. At this time I knew I had to do something, but what? So every where I looked I kept seeing the elimination diet or Paleo diet. I had no idea about either but I thought I should try it out. So then began my journey I had to get rid of the junk out of my diet. I started off with doing a bone broth fast for 2 days, that was hard! I don’t recommend this but at that time it helped me. Let me be clear about what I had to eliminate from my diet, no gluten, no sugar, no grains, no legumes, no dairy and no processed food. I started off simply eggs and spinach for breakfast and chicken and broccoli for lunch and dinner, yes this got old fast, however, the pounds began to melt away.  I finally was able to remember things and I didn’t feel tired all the time. So 6 months goes by, I’m starting to feel better but not really where I need to be at.  I keep seeing the autoimmune protocol pop up whenever I would search anything to do with Paleo in it so, I looked into it. I would have to eliminate night shades which is tomatoes, egg plant, and any and all types of peppers. Also I would have to eliminate nuts , which that was really hard because I love pecans and cashews. If that wasn’t enough I  would also have to eliminate certain spices as well, and eggs. This really sounded like starvation to me. So once again starting from scratch, I couldn’t have eggs anymore for breakfast like I was used too.  I started to eat beet noodles in the morning with some ground turkey instead. I started to feel a lot better too. At this time I switched stores again because I just couldn’t handle the stress I was under at the other store. Amazingly,  my stress level had gone done a lot. At this time I had lost about 40 pounds and I was feeling good. Then I found out I was pregnant with my daughter.